Kazuaki Tanahashi is a calligrapher, painter, Zen scholar, and writer. Originally from Japan, he has had solo exhibitions worldwide. As a peace worker, Kaz is founding director of A World Without Armies. Kaz is the editor of a two volume translation of Dogen’s Shobogenzo, Treasury of the True Dharma Eye: Zen Master Dogen's Shobo Genzo, published in July 2011. His book Sky Above, Great Wind: The Life and Poetry of Zen Master Ryokan was published in October 9, 2012. The Essential Dogen, edited with Peter Levitt, was released in 2013.

For more information on Kaz and his artwork and other publications, visit his web site: www.brushmind.net.

See Kaz discuss and demonstrate the immediacy of his work and one-stroke brush technique in this video made during a previous Tassajara workshop.